班维尔《桦林庄园》的具身叙事与新现实主义身体表征

The Embodied Narrative and Neorealistic Representation of the Body in John Banville's Birchwood

爱尔兰作家约翰·班维尔在《桦林庄园》中思考了自我与身体之间的关系,自我的具身性成为了理解这部作品的核心。小说叙事者加布里埃尔试图写下关于自我的故事,他的讲述由一系列具身体验构成,将身体定位为自我的来源,构筑了关于“身体—自我”的叙事。班维尔一方面书写了自我的耗竭,即身体的退化与不受控造成了自我焦虑;另一方面展现了自我复原的叙事,即身体的调整促成了自我意义的整合,从而让自我发展出独立性,让被“文本”淹没的自我回归现实。这部作品展示出新现实主义的身体书写方式,为身体赋予构建自我叙事的能力,蕴含了班维尔对于如何以具身性突破语言局限性的思考。

Irish writer John Banville contemplates the relationship between self and body in Birchwood,and the embodiment of the self becomes the core for understanding this work.The narrator,Gabriel,attempts to write a story about self,and his narrative is composed of a series of embodied experiences,positioning body as the origin of self and constructing a narrative around“body-self”.On one hand,Banville writes about the exhaustion of self,where the degeneration and uncontrollability of the body result in self-anxiety.On the other hand,Banville portrays a narrative of self-restoration,where the adjustment of the body facilitates the integration of self,allowing the self to develop independence and bring the self,submerged by the“text”,reemerge in reality.The work demonstrates a neorealist approach to writing about the body,endowing the body with the ability to construct the self-narrative,reflecting Banville's consideration of how to transcend the limitations of language through embodiment.